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Large Language Models (LLMs) that power the chatbot you find so fascinating is NOT what AI is all about anymore, that is so last year and simplistic. Agentic AI is where it's at. Watch this to move your thinking on from, AI "made a funny image and then it wrote my report for me" to see what AI (as I write) is really about. Ok, so now we know about agentic AI, and specifically how OpenAI, the company that gives you ChatGPT, allowed it's agentic AI's to roam the Internet, eek. Here's a few articles that give deeper insight, but let's start with this from Wikimedia from just a few days ago. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects 5 October 2026 by Selena Deckelmann, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Wikimedia Foundation While OpenAI admits to agents behaving “unpredictably”, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks. AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and pr...

We find ourselves in all sorts of situations and sometimes we may feel like we're being coerced into something we don't feel comfortable with. You have choice, always, and you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Recognise that there may be a cost, perhaps a massive personal cost to not doing it. You still have a choice and you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Take a breath, step back, and think, "Do I really want to do this?" Maybe you're scared, it's a new thing and you're feeling more anxious about failure and when you do it you'll be chuffed with yourself that you gave it a go. If it's a big thing then perhaps taking the time to talk with those you trust and have useful insight would help, if so then put off the decision until you're clear. Sometimes it's peer pressure, or even social expectations, that you feel is manipulating / forcing you to do something you don't want. You always have a choic...

Those that want to own a house have a deep inner desire to have a nest they believe is their own, a castle if you will :) And those that don't want to own bricks and mortar (me, of course) will merely nod their heads and agree before moving on with their day-to-day life. An old friend of mine said it's all about, "intergenerational wealth". I'm ok with that, if it actually generates wealth but I don't know if it does. There's $10 in New Zealand A dollar is used to create 5 houses, 5 Kiwis live in them.  A house sells for $2 A new house is then bought for $3 [keep going ...] END:  There is still only $10 in NZ Houses are now worth $10 and only 2 people can afford it There is still only $10 in NZ Whilst people may be making money the country as a whole is not, it's a circular economy. Where is the money coming from to sustain this? Of course businesses need money to start, invest, and grow ...but if all the money is used to "create" individual ...

Using Google AI (now called Gemini) I have been saving images every now again that match the following, "Create an image …" of a sunrise over a sand dune with a camel of a Foggy London scene of horse for a day with a calendar showing the day representing "so satisfying" to represent popular music from the 1950s to the 1980s of a NZ 9 year old school boy with a head made of butter Interestingly the final prompt now replies with, "I can create images for you, but not ones that depict minors like that. Can I help with a different image instead? " I also try: Make a landscape ratio poster of the following phrase, "If you want to destroy a nation, destroy the thinking of it's youth - [unknown source*]" Alright, let's get into it, with the latest versions first. a sunrise over a sand dune with a camel August 2026 April 2026 December 2025     April 2024 a Foggy London scene August 2026 April 2026 April 2024 March 2024 March 2024 horse for a day...

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Let's start with the simplest/quickest of the three articles linked from here, explanations (from a particular POV) - what "AI" in the office can/could mean. We then move on to a rebuttal of the loud voices that "AI will doom us all", and then into some serious research about our future with these things we are calling "AI". Enjoy. AI Economics for Dummies by Andrew Singleton, June 11, 2026 4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shove...

You are loved, sometimes people forget to tell you which is weird, especially if, as #1 of  100 Things I Know  states, love is the answer . Why is it we humans can be pretty bloody lax at telling those that we love that we love them? If you have a partner of any description there is not enough times to say, "I love you". It's easy to miss a beat of life and not see that they are internalising a really complicated situation in their head  giving them a tiny bit of angst, put your arms around them and say, "Hey, I love you.". It isn't a solution, it's support, care, and to let them know that they are not alone. Got kids, well you know what to do. No matter where you and they are on the planet send a message if it's easier (do it, now ), but to hear your voice letting them know that you love them sends all sorts of good heart warming chemicals through their bodies. It's what they want and need. Oh, if your kids are all grown up remember that yo...

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During the Department of State’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism on July 16, 2026 (see below), U.S. officials used stark, uncompromising language directed at left-wing political ideology and activism. Rubio characterised leftists as "enemies of civilisation" and an "encroaching darkness" driven by "poisonous resentment," while Miller asserted that left-wing activists are motivated by "envy, by hatred, by jealousy" and dismissed appeals to civil liberties as "completely pretextual and disingenuous" shields meant to evade criminal punishment. If you know about "othering" and trying to focus people's views on "them vs us" you will immediately see where this came from, why they are doing it, and where it can lead to. An old friend of mine recently pulled me up on comparing the US Government to Nazis, and I hear what he is saying, they are not Nazis as that was a group from the 1930s and 1940s. Ev...